April 21 (SeeNews) - The main equity indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) closed mixed on Thursday, as hotel owner and operator Valamar Riviera [ZSE:RIVP] and some shipping, port and shipbuilding stocks rose, while ICT solutions provider Ericsson Nikola Tesla fell, [ZSE:ERNT], bourse data showed.
The 23-share blue-chip index, the CROBEX, added 0.11% to end at 2,136.09 points.
The narrower CROBEX10 which tracks the top ten companies in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, dipped 0.10% to finish at 1,286.47 points.
Valamar was the most traded share on Thursday, contributing almost 2 million kuna ($287,000/265,000 euro) to the total turnover. Its price rose 1.41% to 36 kuna.
Second by turnover was Ericsson Nikola Tesla. Its shares ended 2.12% lower at 1,845 kuna in a turnover of 865,000 kuna as the company said on Thursday it will propose to distribute a dividend of 64 kuna per share this year, lower than the dividend of 82 kuna it paid out last year.
No other share generated a turnover above the one million-kuna mark.
Shares of shipping company Atlantska Plovidba [ZSE:ATPL] surged 3.60% to end at 518 kuna in a turnover of 561,000 kuna.
Thursday's biggest gainers were shipping company Alpha Adriatic [ZSE:ULPL], shipyard Brodogradiliste Viktor Lenac [ZSE:VLEN] and Adriatic sea port operator Luka Ploce [ZSE:LKPC]. Their share prices surged 11.63%, 6.56% and 4.76%, respectively.
The ZSE's total trading turnover dropped to 7.6 million kuna from 12.6 million kuna on Wednesday.
(1 euro = 7.559 Croatian kuna)